ISAAC

NEWTON
By Josep Rafecas

ISAAC NEWTON
1.Introduction
Isaac newton was an English mathematician and physicist who was widely
recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in
the scientific revolution.
Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 at Woolsthorpe
Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth.
From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The
King's School, Grantham which taught him Latin but no mathematics. He was
removed from school, and by October 1659, he was to be found at Woolsthorpe-byColsterworth, where his mother, widowed for a second time, attempted to make a
farmer of him. Newton hated farming. Henry Stokes, master at the King's School,
persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his
education. Motivated partly by a desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully, he
became the top-ranked student.
In June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, on the
recommendation of his uncle Rev William Ayscough.
Soon after Newton had obtained his B.A. degree in August 1665, the university
temporarily closed as a precaution against the Great Plague. Although he had been
undistinguished as a Cambridge student, Newton's private studies at his home in
Woolsthorpe over the subsequent two years saw the development of his theories on
calculus and in April 1667, he returned to Cambridge and in October was elected as
a fellow of Trinity.

2. How he change the live of the people

In 1666, Newton observed that the spectrum of colors exiting a prism is oblong,
even when the light ray entering the prism is circular, which is to say, the prism
refracts different colors by different angles, from this work, he concluded that the
lens of any refracting telescope would suffer from the dispersion of light into colors.
In 1679, Newton returned to his work on (celestial) mechanics by considering
gravitation and its effect on the orbits of planets with reference to Kepler's laws of
planetary motion. This followed stimulation by a brief exchange of letters in 1679
80 with Hooke, who had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's
correspondence, and who opened a correspondence intended to elicit contributions
from Newton to Royal Society transactions.
The Principia was published on 5 July 1687 with encouragement and financial help
from Edmond Halley. In this work, Newton stated the three universal laws of
motion that contributed to many advances during the Industrial Revolution which
soon followed and were not to be improved upon for more than 200 years. Many of
these advancements continue to be the underpinnings of non-relativistic
technologies in the modern world. He used the Latin word gravitas (weight) for the
effect that would become known as gravity, and defined the law of universal
gravitation.
Newton made clear his heliocentric view of the solar system developed in a
somewhat modern way, because already in the mid-1680s he recognized the
"deviation of the Sun" from the center of gravity of the solar system.

3. How they influenced future Mathematicians and

Society later life
Isaac Newton is arguably one of the most influential scientists in history. Though he
lived in the late 1600s, many of his discoveries still affect us in the present. His
various theories still hold true even centuries after his death and countless
experiments.
Sir Isaac Newtons largest contributions were in the areas of science and
mathematics. Newton discovered many of the laws and theories that not only
furthered our understanding of the universe, but also gave future scientists the
tools to discover how to enter space. He discovered gravitational force and
established the three Universal Laws of Motion. By tying these discoveries to the
work Johannes Kepler and his Laws of Planetary motion, he established classic
mechanics the beginning of modern Physics. This was huge in many ways as he
proved definitively the heliocentric model first proposed by Copernicus.
His discoveries in mathematics were just as important. He came up with the
Binomial Theorem and was one of the two creators of calculus. These discoveries
represented a quantum leap in the fields of math and science allowing for
calculations that more accurately modeled the behavior of the universe than ever
before. Without these advances in math, scientists could not design vehicles to
carry us and other machines into space and also plot the best and safest course.
Calculus gave scientist the tools to set up a theoretical model of a situation and still
account for varying factors. This basic knowledge would help scientist such as
Einstein to be able make even greater discoveries such as the Theory of Relativity
and Nuclear Fission.

4. References

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/isaac-newton-124.php
http://www.livescience.com/4965-isaac-newton-changed-world.html